Portrait, Princeton, MA - Gill Family - Emory Washburn Gill, c1865

Portrait, Princeton, MA - Gill Family - Emory Washburn Gill, c1865

Gill, Emory Washburn; History -- Gill family; Civil War America -- Massachusetts -- Princeton; 36th Regiment, Infantry Company C, Princeton (Mass.)

Emory Washburn Gill was born on 1835-07-05. He married Abby Woodward Mirick on 1861-04-24 and lived in a house on Mirick Road built by J. Mirick in 1830. During the Civil War, at age 27, he mustered as a Private in the 36th Regiment Infantry Company C on 1862-08-07. After his 3 years of service expired, he was discharged on 1865-06-16. He served Princeton as Assessor (1876, 1881, 1883), Constable (1875, 1890, 1891, 1892) and was Commander of the John D. Mirick Post No. 99 G.A.R. when the post surrendered its charter in 1874.

H. J. Reed's, Photographer - Worcester (Mass.)

C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/

c1865

Is part of the collection of the Princeton Historical Society, http://www.princetonmahistory.org, housed in the Princeton Public Library, http://princetonpubliclibrary.org, Goodnow Memorial Building, Princeton, Massachusetts.

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